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The Shakespeare Conference: SHK 13.1778 Thursday, 15 August 2002
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Date: Monday, 12 Aug 2002 11:47:05 -0500
Subj: Re: SHK 13.1772 Boring or Enlightening Children
[2] From: Jan Pick <
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Date: Monday, 12 Aug 2002 20:52:35 +0100
Subj: Re: SHK 13.1772 Boring or Enlightening Children
[3] From: Billy Houck <
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Date: Tuesday, 13 Aug 2002 13:44:53 EDT
Subj: Re: SHK 13.1772 Boring or Enlightening Children
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From: R. A. Cantrell <
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Date: Monday, 12 Aug 2002 11:47:05 -0500
Subject: 13.1772 Boring or Enlightening Children
Comment: Re: SHK 13.1772 Boring or Enlightening Children
>Remembering that those who do not learn from the past are doomed to
>repeat it, and
. . . in a democracy, if there are enough of them, we'll all repeat it.
All the best,
R.A. Cantrell
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From: Jan Pick <
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Date: Monday, 12 Aug 2002 20:52:35 +0100
Subject: 13.1772 Boring or Enlightening Children
Comment: Re: SHK 13.1772 Boring or Enlightening Children
Haven't come across this thread before! As a teacher with two children
- I took both to good Shakespeare performances from a very young age.
Consequently I have one deeply Shakespearean 17 year old daughter who
just gets high on it, and one 19 year old son who prefers plays like
Stoppard's R & G Are Dead and Beckett. Personal I know, but....... I
think love of language, theatre and poetry is passed to others by
enthusiasm, a personal road to Damascus experience or peer group
influence. Shakespeare unless taught by inspirational tachers who are
deeply enthusiastic themselves will fail - it is in the theatre that it
should be seen. Therefore companies like the RSC, Cheek By Jowl etc are
incredibly important in carrying the flame.
Jan
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From: Billy Houck <
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Date: Tuesday, 13 Aug 2002 13:44:53 EDT
Subject: 13.1772 Boring or Enlightening Children
Comment: Re: SHK 13.1772 Boring or Enlightening Children
Shaw's quote, as I recall it, (I am on vacation, so this is from memory)
goes: "I do not wish to have my plays published in textbooks. I do not
wish to have the schoolboys of England hate me the way they hate William
Shakespeare."
I think it is important to note that SCHOOLS are very different places
today than they were when Mr. Shaw was a boy.
Billy Houck
undeterred
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